Year: 2022
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Woke vs. Folk
In 2016 I joined my father at a Stampede Party in Calgary. It was well attended by Conservative MPs and former federal cabinet ministers. Former, because a year earlier their government had been defeated by…
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Excuses
When failing to hand in an assignment, a widely used explanation goes along the lines of “the dog ate my homework”. Definition: Excuse noun [1] a reason or explanation given to justify a fault or…
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Birds Aren’t Real
I know it’s a “conspiracy theory”. May be it’s less sinister, and rather it’s just nonsense. The proponents of this “theory” submit: The term “Birds Aren’t Real” refers to biological “Birds” no longer existing on…
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Why I Support Jean Charest
My decision to support Jean Charest as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada is informed by both policy and a meditation on the difficulty I have supporting Pierre Poilievre. While my policy preferences align…
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Der schrie wie ein Jochgeier
Some years ago I was camping just outside Venice near a little village called Jesolo. As we got out the car, at our camp site, a rather portly middle-aged man came marching down the gravel…
